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Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding

Toward a New Cultural Flesh

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  1. Kwok-Ying Lau

    1. Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

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  • Provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy in an East-West comparative study
  • Presents novel attempts to read Eastern philosophies from a phenomenological perspective
  • Proposes new concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 87)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Cultural Flesh and Intercultural Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 1-19

  3. Para-deconstruction: Preliminary Considerations for a Phenomenology of Interculturality

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 21-34

  4. To What Extent Can Phenomenology Do Justice to Chinese Philosophy? A Phenomenological Reading of Laozi

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 35-52

  5. Husserl, Buddhism and the Crisis of European Sciences

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 53-66

  6. Jan Patočka: Critical Consciousness and Non-Eurocentric Philosopher of the Phenomenological Movement

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 67-83

  7. Europe Beyond Europe: Patočka’s Concept of Care for the Soul and Mencius. An Intercultural Consideration

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 85-102

  8. Disenchanted World-View and Intercultural Understanding: From Husserl Through Kant to Chinese Culture

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 103-124

  9. Self-Transformation and the Ethical Telos: Orientative Philosophy in Lao Sze-Kwang, Foucault and Husserl

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 125-151

  10. Lévi-Strauss and Merleau-Ponty: From Nature-Culture Distinction to Savage Spirit and Their Intercultural Implications

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 153-171

  11. The Flesh: From Ontological Employment to Intercultural Employment

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 173-191

  12. Conclusion: Toward a New Cultural Flesh

    • Kwok-Ying Lau
    Pages 193-229

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 231-256
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About this book

This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided: the reader will find a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters.  Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly engaging. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Kwok-Ying Lau

About the author

Kwok-ying LAU, born and educated in Hong Kong, received his Doctor in Philosophy at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, in 1993 with a dissertation entitled Merleau-Ponty ou la tension entre Husserl et Heidegger. Currently Full Professor and Director of MA in Philosophy Program at the Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, he is the founding editor-in-chief since 2004 of the Journal Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (in Chinese), Director of the Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology (since 2010). He is one of the founders of the East-Asian research network P.E.A.CE. (Phenomenology in East-Asian Circle) since 2002, and has organized the Symposia Phaenomenologica Asiatica, Master Class in Phenomenology for Asian Scholars held every summer in The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2014. He has translated writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas, and Ricoeur into Chinese. He has recently published Husserl’s Logical Investigations in the New Century: Western and Chinese Perspectives (ed. with John J. Drummond, series “Contributions to Phenomenology”, Springer, 2007,) Identity and Alterity: Phenomenology and Cultural Traditions (ed. with Chan-Fai Cheung and Tze-Wan Kwan, series “Orbis Phaenomenologicus Perspektiven”, Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2010) , Phenomenology and Human Experience, eds. with Chung-chi Yu, series “Libri nigri”, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Baut GmbH, 2012), and Border-Crossing: Phenomenology, Interculturality and Interdisciplinarity, eds. with Chung-Chi Yu, Series “Orbis Phaenomenologicus Perspektiven”, Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2014). His authored books include Traces of French Phenomenology: From Sartre to Derrida (in Chinese, Taipei, forth coming), Kant: Thinker of Perpetual Peace (in Chinese, Taipei, 1999). He has edited or co-edited 15 other volumes philosophical works inChinese and is the author of about 100 papers written in Chinese, English or French on phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, postmodernism and intercultural understanding.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a New Cultural Flesh

  • Authors: Kwok-Ying Lau

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44764-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44762-9Published: 10 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83130-5Published: 16 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44764-3Published: 29 September 2016

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 256

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Non-Western Philosophy

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